Evident - Evident AI Talent Roundtable

How does investment in AI talent correlate to outcomes from AI use cases?

Wednesday 7th May 2025 15.00-16.00 BST | 10.00-11.00 EDT

VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE

Event Speakers

Ricardo García Martín

Head GRM Data & Analytics & Analytics Transformation, BBVA

Ricardo serves as both the Global Head of GRM Data & Analytics, as well as the Global Head of Analytics Transformation at BBVA. In this role, he is focused on maximizing business value through advanced analytics, while driving the transition to cloud-based solutions. To that end, BBVA recently established a new organizational construct that integrates the bank’s global network of data scientists and specialists. Ricardo’s 20-year career spans multiple roles at Tier-1 institutions, in roles ranging from risk analytics, model development and validation, as well as risk management.

Sumee Seetharaman

Vice President, AI/ML Practice & Center of Excellence, TD Bank

Sumee is VP AI Practice & CoE at TD. In the last 10 years, Sumee has held various product leadership roles across Digital and Enterprise Innovation, and established Open Banking, Marketplaces, and Digital Identity mandates for the bank. Prior to TD, Sumee worked at Microsoft and has shipped enterprise, developer, and customer facing software products. She holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the UofT and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.

Alexandra Mousavizadeh

Co-CEO and Co-founder, Evident

Alexandra has spent 25 years ranking and quantifying complex societal and political forces, and for the last 6 years she has focused on AI. She started her career at Moody’s, then Morgan Stanley, and later became CEO of ARC Ratings and Director of the Prosperity Index. Most recently, Alexandra was Director of Tortoise Intelligence, publisher of The Global AI Index.

Colin Gilbert

VP of Intelligence, Evident

Colin leads Evident's Intelligence Team. focused on developing new content offerings and expanding our customer-facing diagnostics. Colin has spent the last 15 years working in Research & Advisory services, specializing in using quantitative benchmarking to measure an organization's digital aptitude vs. performance. Previously, he served as a Managing Vice President at L2 Inc. (acquired by Gartner in 2017), where he worked on the Digital IQ Index® as it expanded to cover nearly 1,500 leading brands across 15x B2C industries.

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Summary

AI transformation efforts require deploying the right configuration of people at the right time to accelerate change, optimize performance, and realize results. Along the way, banks need to balance between several core capability areas.

This Roundtable event showed how leading banks are addressing a challenging talent market.

Drawing on the latest Evident AI Index data and an expert panel from two of the world’s leading banks, we explored the strategic priorities and best practices that banks are deploying to shape their AI workforces and scale their use case efforts.

This event followed the launch of the 2025 Evident AI Talent Report.

Key Discussion Topics

Informing talent stack decisions through company AI strategy
Coordinating AI expertise with business leaders to scale use cases
Hiring, training and organising talent to meet emerging capability needs for Generative and Agentic AI
Attracting expert roles from a scarce talent pool

Key Slides & Perspectives

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